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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BAPTISM Matches Found: 43 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHRISTENING, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took him to the hoary church Last Line: For christopher upon his breast. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ANATHEMA, by GEORGE S. BRYAN Poem Text First Line: After a week of rain (miss martha said) Last Line: "you little slut, now you shan't be baptized!" Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ANNIVERS: BAPTISMI, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: How much worse than in vain Last Line: When thou, not I, sole owner art of me. Subject(s): Baptism; Birth; Christianity; Christenings; Child Birth; Midwifery ANNIVERS: BAPTISMT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Courage my soule! What though thy foes combine Last Line: Wilt but endure a conquerour to grow. Subject(s): Baptism; Worship; Christenings ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (1), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Welcome sweet & happy day Last Line: Who serve truth's potent master tell a lie. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (2), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Love, I am thine: for yf I be Last Line: O may I but be thine, I care not how! Subject(s): Baptism; Worship; Christenings ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (3), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O deer & memorable day to me Last Line: Eases soft chains on my diseases rage. Subject(s): Baptism; Christianity; Christenings ANNIVERSARIUM BAPTISMI (5), by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Woe is me, but even now Last Line: Sooner we to heavn shall rise. Subject(s): Baptism; Worship; Christenings AT THE CHRISTENING OF AN INFANT THE MIND OF THE YOUNG PREACHER WANDERS, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not for us to give this soul to god Last Line: Your new one, and god, and human - and go forth Subject(s): Baptism BAPTISM OF AN INFANT AT ITS MOTHER'S FUNERAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence is that trembling of a father's hand Last Line: Be wafted from the minstrelsy of heaven. Subject(s): Baptism; Stillbirth; Christenings; Death - Childbirth BAPTISM OF CHRIST, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a green spot in the wilderness Last Line: Circled, and flutter'd to the saviour's breast. Subject(s): Baptism; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Christenings BAPTISM OF THE FIRST BORN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come dearest, come, the sabbath-bell Last Line: And strong death's icy seal are there. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings BAPTISMAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning inside the black cloud put slabs Last Line: To walk over the fire like a lake. Subject(s): Baptism; Fire; Christenings BAPTISME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strength of baptisme, that's within Last Line: It saves the soule, by drowning sin. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings DA VERRA LEETLA BABY, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Irish padre tommeeckbride Last Line: W'en he do da best he can! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 20. BAPTISM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear be the church that, watching o'er the needs Last Line: With what man hopes from heaven, yet fears from earth. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings FOUR EPISTLES: MIRACLE AT THE FEAST OF PENTECOST: 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many thanks have been order'd this day to attend Last Line: Excuse the presumption.—dear vicar, adieu! Subject(s): Apostles; Baptism; Bible; Language; Prayer; Religion; Spiritual Life; Disciples, Twelve; Christenings; Words; Vocabulary; Theology GOSPEL BANJO: HOMAGE TO LITTLE ROY LEWIS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days I lay with a fire under my skin, in the guest room Last Line: Which is the joy of waking on either side of the jordan. Subject(s): Banjos; Baptism; Dreams; Lewis, Little Roy; Musical Instruments; Prayer Meetings; Christenings; Nightmares NO PHOTO, by ANN DEVENEZIA Poem Source First Line: I wish I had not forgotten my camera Last Line: Trusting to memory the candle's glow Subject(s): Baptism; Children ON THE CHRISTENING OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day among the faithful placed Last Line: Another and the same! Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings ON WITNESSING A BAPTISM, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood up in the meekness of a heart Last Line: In leading its young spirit up to god. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings PERAMBULATOR POEM, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was christened Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings PERAMBULATOR POEM, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was christened Last Line: I let them know %that I was christened Subject(s): Baptism PLACE OF BIRTH, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I was baptized by Last Line: Down home, %sanctified jazz Subject(s): Babies; Baptism; Birth POMP'S DEFENSE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stole dem breeches, I 'knowledge de corn Last Line: Ter steal dem breeches ter be baptize' in. Subject(s): African Americans; Baptism; Religion; Negroes; American Blacks; Christenings; Theology REFUSING TO BAPTIZE A SON, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight came and my mother-in-law Last Line: Even in these words, even if they are %the superstitions of an agnostic Subject(s): Baptism RELIQUARY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: The golden lock from my son's first haircut Last Line: Of the holy bones of my black dog who could fly Subject(s): Baptism; Christianity; Spiritual Life SACRED EPIGRAM: BAPTISM DOES NOT TAKE AWAY FUTURE SINS, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, who were but recently that child achilles whom your Last Line: Can now be better wrecked by its own tears Subject(s): Baptism SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE WATER OF THE LORD'S BAPTISM, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O blessed [water], which may thus go over the holy limbs! Last Line: Indeed whatever drop passes over the holy limbs, %while it remains here, is a jewel; while it falls Subject(s): Baptism SACRED EPIGRAM: THE ETHIOPIAN WASHED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black man comes forth from the holy waves - how well washed! Last Line: Now the holy dove will wish even a black house Subject(s): Baptism; Blacks SONG OF THE BAPTISMAL CHIMES, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Philistines, grocers / the while that you know, sirs Last Line: Roses. Subject(s): Baptism; Children; Christenings; Childhood SUN AND RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the sun and rain have been Last Line: Their wet eyes heavenward with these of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Baptism; Flowers; God; Rain; Roses; Christenings THE CHRISTENIN', by PRIAM [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "on the plains of tooraneedin, where the rabbits keep on breedin'" Last Line: He's the one and only christian pig in all the countryside Alternate Author Name(s): Priam Subject(s): Baptism;christianity;ireland;pigs; Christenings;irish;boars;hogs THE CHRISTENING, by AMY SHERMAN BRIDGMAN Poem Text First Line: O little one Last Line: Let us go! Subject(s): Baptism; Children; Christenings; Childhood THE CHRISTENING, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hould him up! Last Line: My gough! But we'll have a chrizzenin'! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings THE CHRISTENING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose child is this they bring Last Line: Yea: sweet love's sepulchring!' Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings THE CHRISTENING, by ALEXANDER WATT Poem Text First Line: Twas foorsday, an' the blinding drift Last Line: To imitate the barefit laird. Subject(s): Baptism; Religion; Christenings; Theology THE PARISH REGISTER: 1. BAPTISMS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year revolves, and I again explore Last Line: As spenser his -- but not with spenser's oar. Subject(s): Baptism; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Christenings THE SECOND BAPTISM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When tiny babes we touch on brow and breast Last Line: Wetting them with our tears. Subject(s): Baptism; Fear; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Christenings THE WATERS OF H. BAPTISME, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: The worlds great lord as once he stood Last Line: These onely sin. Subject(s): Baptism; God; Water; Christenings THESE BAPTIZING WATERS, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: We are at the thin brink that marks Last Line: These baptizing waters Subject(s): Baptism; Catholics; Water TO C.F.H.; ON HER CHRISTENING-DAY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair caroline, I wonder what Last Line: Good things with glad. . . . Yes, caroline! Subject(s): Baptism; Christenings UNDERWATER SACRAMENT, COHUTTA WILDERNESS, by DEREK ECONOMY Poem Source First Line: I held my breath as we went down Last Line: Trailing away in double procession Subject(s): Baptism; Religion |
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